# Do you lie in polls?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 19, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-lie-in-polls/554282 "2010-09-19T13:57:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-lie-in-polls/554282/21 "2010-09-20T21:28:46Z")

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I suspect many people might lie in polls for fun, but not to skew the results?

As in generally you want to skew results in the direction you believe in so lying is generally not needed unless its about behaviour, ie I dont chow mcnuggets like they’re going out of fashion so its not my fault Im the size of a house.

Otara

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